Phenomenal reading : essays on modern and contemporary poetics /
The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large. Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that are central to how best to read poetry. This book examines individually a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Modern and contemporary poetics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large. Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that are central to how best to read poetry. This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional orders? What end do these arrangements serve? Why are they striking? Brian Reed focuses on poetic form as a persistent puzzle, using historical fact and the views of other key c. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817386016 (electronic bk.) 0817386017 (electronic bk.) |